Tag: sprocket rocket

3 Sixty 5 Photography: 079 Me. Ace Hotel Portland. 

A long hot bath may yet be the final safe haven from the technological world. Like flying on an airplane, or taking a long train ride, the forced limitations of your sourroudings bring about a unique introspection; or maybe Im just getting old. 

365daysoflomography:

03.09.15 San Pedro.

“Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster- tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?…It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.” – Herman Melville 

365daysoflomography:

03.14.15 Julie. Los Feliz.

Typically not something I enjoy in photography, the random chances with the equipment of photography, but the Sprocket Rocket sometimes creates these really interesting “flaws” that turn a photo into something unique and more than it was before.

You can see there are light leaks that came through the sprocket hols, almost creating a trailing effect along the lower sprockets. To me, it creates this odd dream like a effect, like a flash was popped in a fluid ocean of dream and this was the result. Like I said, I’m not the kind of photographer that would really use expired film, flawed cameras or inconsistent technology, and hope for the magic of happenstance; but with the Sprocket Rocket, I the unique flaws it brings to an image are contained enough that they can be relied on to add rather than distract. Its one of those things that makes such a simple camera a great camera.